If it's Detroit, we get a rematch of last year's classic Eastern Conference finals series, Detroit's poise and precision winning out in the final two minutes of Game 7, which turned out -- at least for the time being -- to be the final playoff game coached by Stan Van Gundy and the final Game 7 won by Larry Brown.

We're likely to get that rematch if the folks in Vegas, who installed Detroit as a nine-point favorite for Sunday's game, are correct. But the oddsmakers have been overly enamored of the two-time defending conference champions during this series, too dismissive of the upstarts from 150 miles down the road. This series has turned into a tossup, and which is better team is nowhere near as clear-cut as it seemed two weeks ago.